Meditations on Listening, a creative exploration of the conductor's role and a development towards a post-conducting practice

Halldis Ronning

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Meditations on Listening, a creative exploration of the conductor's role and a development towards a post-conducting practice (2025)

Halldis Ronning

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Halldis Rønning's artistic research contributes to the field of conducting, transdisciplinarity and listening practices. She seeks to open the traditional conductor's role towards co-creative practices and find new artistic expressions of conducting. Can conducting be conceptual art? Can it be performance or dance? How can it relate to visual art? Her motivation to open up the role is rooted in a wish to deepen her listening practice as a conductor. This deepening includes creative, spatial, embodied, visual, imaginary and relational listening. Listening as artistic quality and as artistic process. The work starts in the experimental art field and ends up in the Concert Hall with Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. There is a feministic context to the research and she touches upon topics such as mutual exchange, space to create, agency and control. But also the conducting body as an expression in itself, in relation to nature or an orchestra.

type	research exposition
keywords	Conducting, dance conducting, post-conducting, experimental conducting, symphony orchestra, co-creation, co-composition, listening practices, mutual exchange, conceptual conducting, orchestral performance, Orchestra, orchestra conducting, being conducted, embodied listening, embodied conducting, Alexander Technique, deep listening, Video art, composition, graphic notation, site-spesific composition, creative agency, technology for conductors, feministic ethics of conducting
date	20/03/2023
published	04/09/2025
last modified	04/09/2025
status	published
copyright	Halldis Rønning
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2036504/2036505
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/uis.2036504
published in	University of Stavanger
portal issue	2. Publications of 2025

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